(02-20-2023, 09:56 AM)BIAD Wrote: "...On Sunday, Lancashire Police said they "sadly recovered a body" from the water after
being called to the River Wyre..." -BBC
"...It was spotted by dog walkers a mile from where Nicola was last seen..." -The Sun
Ms Nicola Bulley & Partner Paul Ansell. Peter Faulding.
The foliage along the riverbank in the Google images is grass, there is no 'reed-bed'. It may possibly
come out later that the body became 'snagged' in the bush shown in the third image.
I'm not familiar with the geography of the River Wyre. Am I correct to assume that the river flows from right towards left in the maps above? From what I assume is east towards the west? If so, once the body became a "floater", it's natural to assume that it caught at the north bank or upper bank in the image, in the river bend shown. The difference in locations specified is only about 200 feet, so not a real biggie for a "journalist" who can't be assed to get off their behinds and go take a look at the find site - we're lucky they somehow managed to find the river on an image!
It's 3-weeks-later sudden appearance could be explained if the body had initially sunk to the bottom of the river, and only floated back to the surface after enough decomposition gasses had built up in it to cause it to become a "floater". Of more interest is how searches could scour a river bed for any length of time and miss a body lying in it, floater or not.
Less explainable is the statement that it was found snagged in a reed bed where no reed bed exists.
Also less explainable is a body being found in a river where no sign of a slip into the river was found. Slippery banks where one may accidentally slide into a river always leave a telltale "slide" mark into the river at the point of entry, if one knows what to look for, and I must assume "experts" do know what to look for.
Now, if that river flows from left to right in the images, or west to east, then none of it makes any sense. Bodies do not float upriver of their own accord, and they do not snag in river bends BEFORE they get into the curve.
Just thinking out loud.
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